The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1887-11-16

ing OF the worlds corner stone All the
sacred music Ia homes, and concert balls
and churches tends toward this consum.
nation. Make 1t more and more hearty.
Sing in your families Sing In your
places of business. II we with proper
spirit use these faculties, we are rehears'
ing for the skies.
Heaven is to have . new song, an en-
tirely new song, but should not wonder
IL. as sometime q tune on earth Is fash
toned out of many tunes. or it Is one tune
with the variations, so some OF the songs
OF the redeemed may have playing
through them the songs OF earth; and how
thrilling, MS coming through the great an
them of the saved, accompanied by harp
ers with their harps and trumpeters
with their trumpets, we should hear some
OF the strains of "Antioch," and "Mount
Pisgah" and "Coronation," and Len
OK" and asst. Martins" and "Fountain,"
and "Ariel,n aud sold Hundred" How
they would bring to mind tho praying
circles and communion days, and the
Christmas festivals, and the church wor-
ship in which on earth we mingled ]
have no idea that when we bid farewell to
heart we are to bid farewell to
all these grand old Gospel hymns, which
years. Now, my friends, If sin is discor
and Righteousness is harmony, let us gel
out of the ono and enter the other. After
our dreadful civil war was over and in
the summer of 1859, great
National peace jubilee was held
in Boston, and, as an elder of the church
had been honored by the selection Of some
of bis music to be rendered on that occa-
sion, / accompanied him to the jubilee.
Forty thousand people sat and stood in
the great Coliseum erected for that pur-
pose. Thousands Of wind and stringed in.
struments. Twelve thousand trained
voices. The masterpieces OF all ages rem.
dered, hour after hour and day after day
--Handei's "Judas Maccabaeus," Sphor's
"Last Judgment Beethoyen's "Mount Of
Olives" Haydn's Creation" Mendels-
sohn's "Elijah," Meyerbeer's "Corna-
tion March" rolling on and up In surges
that billowed against the heavens
The mighty cadences within were
accompanied on the outside by
the ringing of the bells of the city,
and cannon on the commons, in exact
time with the music, discharged by cleo
tricity, laundering their awful bars OF
harmony that astonished all nations.
Sometime bowed my head and wept.
Sometimes l stood up in the enchantment,
and sometimes the effect was so over
powering felt could not endure it.
When all the voices were in full chorus,
and all the batons in full wave, and all
the orchestra in full triumph, and
hundred anvils under mighty
hammers were in full clang.
and all the towers Of the cty'rolled in
! their maiectic sweetness, and the whole
building quaked with the boom of thirty
cannon. Parepa Rosa, with voice that
will never again be equaled on earth I'M
til the Archangelic voice proclaims that
| time shall be no longer, rose above all
| other sounds in her rendering of our ma.
| tional air, the Star Spangled Banner. II
| was too much for mortal, and quite
enough for an immortal, to hear, and
while some tainted, one womanly spirit,
released under its power, sped away to
| be with God.
o, Lord, our God, quickly usher in the
whole worlds peace jubilee, and all Is
| lands of the sea join the five Continents,
| and all the voices and musical instruments
| Of ell nations combine, and all the organs
| that ever sounded requiem of sorrow
sound only grand march of joy, and
| all the bells that tolled for burial ring for
resurrection, and all the cannon that ever
| hurled death across the nations sound to
eternal victory, and over all tho ac-
claim of earth and minstrelsy OF
Heaven there will be heard one
voice sweeter and mightier than
any human or angelic voice, a voice once
| full or tears, but then full Of triumph, the
| voice Of Christ saying:
| lam Alpha and Omega, the beginning and tho
| end, the first and the last.
Then, at the laying of the top-stone OF
| the worlds history, the same voices shall
be heard 81 when at the laying Of the
worlds cornerstone: